I've got the hiccups!

[devilgrrl]

:grr:irritating:grr:

[The Straight Story]

1. put arms up in the air and drink 10 gulps of water

if no one around to help you hold one arm up and use the other. Never failed me yet...

[Dookus]

BOOO!

[devilgrrl]

3. I was waiting for that one.

:-)

[GingerSnaps]

2. Think of 1 thing that * has done good for this country & they will go away

:bounce:

[gumby]

4. I know the only medically approved

solution. You have to swallow spoonfuls of granules. This could be fine sand, but sugar is more acceptable to the human system.

Therefore, take out your sugar-bowl and a spoon. Dip in and get a big spoon full of sugar and swallow it as fast as you can. Those granules on your internals (whatever they are) are what stops the hiccups.

I learned this in a genu-ine emergency room.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. Take a teaspoon of sugar moistened with water...

slowly sipped from the spoon.

[norml]

8. I thought the sugar was supposed to be dry in order to be more irritating

This cure was in Scientific American.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Well, I didn't read the article; but I've been taking it

with water for over 40 years, and it's never failed me.

Perhaps the degree of irritation depends on the individual.

[BlueHandDuo]

10. I've never heard of taking it with water...

...maybe if you have dry-mouth syndrome the water would help, but usually there's enough saliva to keep the sugar granules from doing any damage on the way down.

And it's been a sure-fire cure every time I've tried it.

[aliberalpricking]

6. guaranteed cure

this is a sure fire way to frighten the hiccups away.....It is my way of saying hello to some "friends"

[aliberalpricking]

7. guaranteed cure

I go by the name of Bill. and this is a sure fire way to frighten the hiccups away.....It is my way of saying hello to some "friends"

[Nestea]

11. Cure:

1) Pour a TALL glass of water.

(2) Hold your breath... ***

(3) IMPORTANT...PINCH YOUR NOSE CLOSED.

(4) Slowly, take 10 - 20 swallows of the water...while holding your breath with your nose pinched closed.

(5) When you can't stand it any more....you'll know by that overwhelming drowning sensation -- after a gasp, take a deep breath and relax.

[Robeson]

12. Eat a tablespoon of peanut butter, slowly....

[billyskank]

13. That was me a couple of days ago

My heart goes out to you!

[realisticphish]

14. in the words of Hobbes

(the comic strip tiger, not the political philospher)

"i think most hiccup cures were designed purely for the entertainment of the patient's friends"

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat